Dodaleca

Some want a limited slip diff, light weight buckets and PCCB as the remaining performance options. Maybe center locks for some as well.
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After that I think everything else is a taste or appearance item.

Britzky9

Ah, got it.

Thanks!

Skwerl

Adaptives, PCCB and Aerokit were the big ones I was thinking of. There was a black/black 09 with those three things and about 26k miles (basically had everything going for it) that sold for around $90k a few months ago.

Sports Chrono is so common i barely think of it as an option.

pfbz

And on the 997 gen cars, sport (+) mode software (the only part of the Sport Chrono package that is really meaningful) can always be added at a fairly reasonable cost to a car not optioned with it.

Skwerl

When I first started looking at TTs, I almost convinced myself to go with one without Sport Chrono since the dash looks better without the weird wart thing and I was going to tune the ECU anyway. Ended up with a Sport Chrono car anyway, but the logic still makes some sense to me...

CodeRed

I was a little disappointed at the sales price, seemed like a $75k car...at least in Cali. You are right about the wart, better to have deleted that option and just tune it instead. Still great cars and exceptional value for 10 years old. Time well tell, really great styling compared to 996 inside and out, last mezger block, 6speed, coupe...but a little too much plastic used in the 997. Still one of my all time favs when lightly tuned. Only negative was 5 owners for only 50k miles, makes me just a bit suspious.

Dodaleca

On the 997.2 I would have gotten SPORT CHRONO for the dynamic engine mounts otherwise the same performance effect can be achieved with a tune.

racerx0911

Keep in mind that BaT uses up to 5% of their fee to meet the reserve. In my case, the owner got 1500 worth of my BaT fees to make him whole.

dewilmoth

5% of their max fee of $5k is only $250. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how much of their fee will they apply to the seller to make the transaction?

pfbz

Yes, you are misunderstanding.

The buyers premium is 5% of the final bid price up to a maximum BUYERS PREMIUM of $5,000, so the fee tops out at $100,000 auction price with a $5,000 buyers premium.

$5,000 + $250 buyers premium = $5,250 total to Buyer.
$50,000 + $2,500 buyers premium = $52,500 total to Buyer.
$100,000 + $5,000 buyers premium = $105K total to Buyer.
$100,001+ = The final bid plus the maximum $5,000 buyers premium in total to Buyer.

The buyers premium goes to BAT, not the Seller.

Several have claimed that BAT will sometimes apply part of their buyers premium to the Sellers proceeds to bring the sale up to the Sellers reserve, a fairly common auction practice.

Hypothetically:

• Seller has $75,000 reserve
• Max bid at end of auction is $73,000 (+ the 5% buyers premium of $3,650.)
• Bat could use their proceeds to give the Seller the full $75K they wanted, mark the auction as complete instead of 'reserve not met', obligating both the Buyer and Seller.
• BAT would then only take $1,650 for themselves and credit the other $2,000 to the Seller (which is still $1,650 more than they would make if it was Reserve Not Met).